PART IGENERAL

Disruption in the course of adoption leave12

1

Regulation 22 of the Leave Regulations shall be modified in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

2

For paragraph (1), there shall be substituted—

1

This regulation applies where, during an employee’s period of adoption leave in respect of a child, the child—

a

dies, or

b

ceases to live with the adopter.

3

For paragraph (3), there shall be substituted—

3

The relevant week referred to in paragraph (2) is—

a

in a case falling within paragraph (1)(a), the week during which the child dies;

b

in a case falling within paragraph (1)(b), the week during which the child ceased to live with the adopter.